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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd May 2017

There are 16 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd May 2017. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 7: Capital, once a way to make an artistBONNARD
AAcross 8: Set aside sci-fi film ring
AAcross 9: Big shot: "How annoying to be rejected"
AAcross 10: Thrift makes old man cut drink
AAcross 12: Bear stall
AAcross 13: Not like Cambridge cherry loaf?
AAcross 13: Not like Cambridge cherry loaf?
AAcross 15: Sort of bordering on tense
AAcross 16: Much abbreviated service offered by some councils to motorists' family group
AAcross 17: Provided partially overlapping state singer
AAcross 18: Get back into the habit of playing to lecher
AAcross 20: Second heat gets crowd
AAcross 21: Oil neck part with hesitation?
AAcross 22: Clio's motorway exploit?
AAcross 24: Puts on shades
AAcross 25: Ego-less, trembling internal light
DDown 1: Son welcomed by fashionable party-giver
DDown 2: Cry from wolf, perhaps, breaking gate
DDown 3: Mythical sea monster, camouflaged — blooming thing!
DDown 4: Ground: land used to bring rider to earth
DDown 5: Top champion horse raised
DDown 6: Females gathered for drink
DDown 11: Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil
DDown 12: Spades have advantage on grass
DDown 14: Wrong to follow cocaine appeal
DDown 16: Cup certain to be too big for its container
DDown 17: One in nursery, possibly cultivated yam wearing coat
DDown 19: Refuse transport for patient
DDown 20: Craft's auxiliary masts tops stuck in bridge
DDown 21: Four suits put in case?
DDown 23: Fail to stick with one channel sea feature
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